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Friday, October 3, 2014

Research about Gender in the STEM Workplace

Science Faculty’s Subtle Gender Biases Favor Male Students by Corinne A. Moss-Racusina et al.
In a study with 127 science faculty at research-intensive universities, candidates with identical resumes were more likely to be offered a job and paid more if their name was "John" instead of "Jennifer." The gender of the faculty participating did not impact the outcome.

Getting a Job: Is there a Motherhood Penalty by Shelley J. Correll and Stephen Benard
Employers were less likely to call back a female candidate if their resume contained a line about being a member of the parent-teacher association, but more likely to call back a male candidate with the same line.

In cases where I was unable to access the original study content, my summary includes a pointer to the news article where I read about the study. I read the following news articles and blogs in the process of collecting the above links: